My wife wants a SxS, but I refuse to pay the outrageous price of one. So I am looking into building the equivalent of one but in a truck.. My wife likes the aspect of getting in one and throwing it in gear and hammering the throttle. We are a family of 4, but also host foreign exchange student during the school year. So a 5 seater is a must. Heres my idea, I have a 1st gen explorer, It has an Autofab 16" kit on it right now. Deavers in the rear with 17"x2.5 Bilstiens, 33's, 4.88 gears. Dana 35 TTB up front, and 8.8 out back. Suspension is pretty good, need to finish dialing in shocks, but overall pretty solid. My plan is to gut the truck, cage it, put in PRP seats, buckets up front, bench in rear(I have the seats). and stuff an LS in it, with an auto trans. Keeping it 4x4 as we live in Idaho and would use it year round. With a few engine upgrades, I feel like I could get the Power/weight ratio of a SxS. In my mind, it seems like a solid plan. Plus its street legal everywhere. Feel free to chime in with better ideas or poke holes in my plan. This truck would be used in the mountains, open desert, and sand.
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